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Aviation Dreams, Rugby & Selling Starlink Across Africa - Said Alli | Coffee Pump (E126)
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Episode Aviation Dreams, Rugby & Selling Starlink Across Africa - Said Alli | Coffee Pump (E126)
Konnichiwa,
Recorded live at AfPIF 2026 in Kigali. Said Alli is the Executive Chairman and CEO of MoveOn Telecoms, and he got there by accident. He wanted to work in aviation, ended up at Makerere studying IT, and has spent the last two decades building networks across East Africa. Six Telecoms, Raha, Green Telecom in Tanzania, and now a business connecting people through Starlink in places fibre will never reach.
We get into:
– Wanting a career in aviation and how that turned into telecoms
– Growing up in Uganda and what university actually taught him
– Rugby, and what the game gave him that the classroom didn't
– His first networking job and learning the trade from the ground up
– Moving from engineering into business development
– Joining Raha in Tanzania and what that market taught him
– Founding Green Telecom and what nearly broke it
– Running MoveOn Telecoms and building wireless infrastructure
– Working with SpaceX and what satellite really changes for rural Africa
– Open access fibre and why the model matters
– What he's building next
– His first AfPIF and why he keeps coming back
Huge thanks to AfPIF and the African IXP Association for hosting us and setting up the guests.
Hope you enjoy the episode.
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Recorded at AfPIF 2026, Kigali, in collaboration with:
Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum: https://www.afpif.org
African IXP Association: https://www.af-ix.org
Find Said Alli:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tchiddy/
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/said-alli-93066b3b/
MoveOn Telecoms: https://www.moveontelecoms.co.ke
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